Neil Young

Can we appreciate the man before he's dead instead of the other way around? 

thanks

So how'd that hi-res toblerone turn out?

huh?

  On 3/23/2017 at 9:17 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

So how'd that hi-res toblerone turn out?

flol

I'm honestly not super familiar with his music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4zAZuB6jBk

Brilliant guy, loved him since I saw the Rust Never Sleeps concert film at age 14 or so.

every person who likes music should listen to harvest, on the beach, everybody knows this is nowhere, rust never sleeps, zuma (he invented grunge on this album) and trans. 

btw your title freaked me out and i thought he died, please retitle to neil young appreciation.

Trans was big part of my childhood. Rust Never Sleeps was a big part of my teens. After the Gold Rush my 20s.

He made a lot of brilliant music, a lot of shit music, and never gives a damn.

https://youtu.be/osTWE6Pg5p4

Best cover of Neil Young everrr

No, it's this one :

  On 3/23/2017 at 10:30 PM, NorthernFusion said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4zAZuB6jBk

great great track & album

TL;DW: album-length video for his 2010 collab with Daniel Lanois, recorded live in Lanois' living room with a stereo Gretsch run through two amps while Lanois and his assistant did live processing and mix.  Apparently there are a few moments where samples of vocals were heavily processed and brought in to the mix after the fact but other than that it was a live mix.

As good as anything he's done.

Dead Man OST and Arc (the 40 minute noise album he did around '89 that's made entirely from between-song noise recorded with the built-in mic on a camcorder sitting on top of one of his amps on the previous year's tour) are also great.

Everything he did is great, although I disagree that Harvest is a must-listen, it's a good album but not his best and you can get way better versions of almost all the stuff on it on the Live at Massey Hall album that came out a few years ago (and sounds fantastic compared to the numerous bootlegs of the show that were floating around).

Personally I'm big on After the Gold Rush, Time Fades Away, Zuma and Everybody Knows This is Nowhere for his classic stuff, and Year of the Horse ('97 live album) is really good, too. Also, El Dorado is fantastic.

Here's a track from El Dorado where he nailed the early 90s slowcore sound  a couple years before it was invented:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVEFT9RUZPs

Live footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPOd3Rl8PXc

There's a live recording of Codeine covering it floating around that's worth checking out, too.

I've never been a fan of Sonic Youth but the stuff Neil did in the late 80s when he was hanging out with Thurston for a while was really good.

Guitar Solo 5 from Dead Man OST is also absolutely top shelf, probably my favorite thing he ever recorded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx3ajYfbzcw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhS5WG9QbLM

Trans is great, and Landing on Water has its own weird charm, too.

Landing on Water is amazing, as is Trans. I'd love to hear him do another electronic album, even if those two were joke albums or whatever. Somebody give him some elektron gear or something lol

I have a super love of the first side of Hawks & Doves after first hearing it on LSD, the first track really blew me away.

Of course, the classics like After The Gold Rush, Harvest etc..

Yeah, he's pretty good. My girlfriend can't stand his voice though so I can't really get away with playing his records at home (except maybe Trans because vocoder lol)

always liked this performance of harvest moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EGpkV_RNT4

huge fan

only day before yesterday I played most of Ragged Glory there's a track right at the back end Love and Only Love ​which is immense!

I haven't invested much time in his newer records but did buy the live albums (Massey Hall, Fillmore East, Cellar Door)

Among other things I absolutely loved his cover of Summertime. But I never was able to find it again. Maybe it even wasn't Neil Young.

  On 3/24/2017 at 5:15 AM, modey said:

Landing on Water is amazing, as is Trans. I'd love to hear him do another electronic album, even if those two were joke albums or whatever. Somebody give him some elektron gear or something lol

 

I have a super love of the first side of Hawks & Doves after first hearing it on LSD, the first track really blew me away.

 

Of course, the classics like After The Gold Rush, Harvest etc..

 

Yeah, he's pretty good. My girlfriend can't stand his voice though so I can't really get away with playing his records at home (except maybe Trans because vocoder lol)

I forget where it was now, but years ago I read an interview where he talked about how Trans happened.  He had recently had his second son, Ben, who has severe cerebral palsy (as did his first, although if I remember right the first one was far less severe).  He dropped out of music entirely and enrolled Ben, who was I think around 2, in an experimental therapy program that was supposed to train him to walk and speak.  It was extremely intensive and both Neil and his wife spent something like 10 hours a day, 7 days a week working directly with the therapists and their son, for almost two years I think, before figuring out that the program was a sham and if anything was doing more harm than good, and got out of it.  That was the period when he started to get in to synthesizers and developed the Trans material, and he said in the interview that his use of the vocoder in general, and Transformer Man specifically, was his way of coping with the situation by trying to express what he imagined the internal voice of his completely nonverbal son would sound like.

Who knows if it's true that he was deliberately doing that or if it's just self-analysis after the fact, but it's a good story.

Unrelated, this interview with Larry Cragg about Neil Young's amps is pretty fascinating, especially the part about how Neil can usually guess the line voltage at a given venue to within a couple volts by listening to how his amp distorts:

http://www.thrasherswheat.org/friends/amps.htm

He also did the best live SNL performance in history :

Ragged Glory is really solid all the way through, and also had some amazingly bad music videos:

Seriously, that might as well be from one of those karaoke laserdiscs from the 80s.

EDIT: also check out the Zubaz on Frank Sampedro!